NEW DELHI: The Congress has sacked its Moradabad district chief Ajay Saraswat Soni after posters depicting party chief Sonia Gandhi as Goddess Durga were found in the party office there.

Gandhi condemned the appearance of the said posters and ordered the state Congress committee to enquire into the matter and identify the persons responsible for this.

A painting portraying Gandhi as Goddess Durga in the party office in Moradabad caught everybody by surprise. Soni termed the poster as a "work of art" created by a painter who hung the "sample piece" from a wall at the party office in Moradabad during the recent Assembly elections.

The painter had also asked party workers to contact him for more such paintings, if required.